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One of the glories of New York is its ethnic food, and only McDonald's and Burger King equalize us all.

I started writing it the day after Sept. 11. I was living in New York City. We didn't have any phone service and we didn't have any mail. Like a lot of writers do, I started to write in a voice that I missed.

In New York, there are so many potholes, they're like craters on the moon. That's another traffic thing.

I think everything should be in verse. 'The New York Times' should be in verse.

In New York, I like it when you can get bagels at 3 in the morning.

Every time when they would call my name I kept hearing 'New York Knicks' instead of 'Seattle SuperSonics.'

I don't think Israel can accept an Iranian terror base next to its major cities any more than the United States could accept an al Qaeda base next to New York City.

What I had later learned was that the FBI knew I was going to New York a couple days after the raid.

When I was in New York, I was making a living. We had a summer house and a car that I could put in a garage. That's something for a stage actor.

There is something about New York City that in and of itself is so theatrical hat I use to think... I use to feel when I walked out of my apartment on the way to school or anywhere that I was walking out on stage.

Osama bin Laden, the Saudi-born revolutionary who is believed by most Arab and Iranian observers to be the inspiration of the attacks in New York and Washington, is the best known of the Islamic militants to have emerged in the past 20 years and the least difficult to fathom.

I live in New York and I was only there for 2 weeks all last year.

I often feel that my days in New York City, that I was here for five years, didn't get one job, went on a thousands of auditions and literally did not get a job on a soap, not a movie, not TV, not nothing, although I did do some commercials thank God.

There was always a love-hate relationship with New York in the rest of the country, but I made them feel more love than hate.

The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live.

All the New York City Ballet does is hit beautiful home runs.

We didn't have movies in this little mining town. When I was 12 my mom took me to New York and I saw Bye Bye Birdie, with people singing and dancing, and that was it.

New York City is a notoriously hard market to perform country music in.

When I lived in New York, not only did I have safety locks on the door but I had the music going, keeping the city at a distance, trying to find creative time and peace and so forth.

I've been in California for about 15 years now. You're always in your car and insulated. I miss New York so much.

After that, I started going downtown and doing a lot of theater shows in Chicago. When you go downtown there, it's like you're in New York, it's like going to Broadway.

Everything has combined to make my life in New York an amazing experience. I told my manager a few years ago that I wanted to move here and try acting in the theater.

New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

I must therefore implore your indulgence for a pretty long and plain development of my views concerning that cause which the citizens of New York, and you particularly, gentlemen, honour with generous interest.

It always feels good to come back here. I love New York... it's just nice to see a lot of familiar faces.

This is a dream come true. To wake up in a place that I own and go to work in New York City as an actor - I feel like Mary Tyler Moore throwing her friggin' hat in the air.

This is New York, and there's no law against being annoying.

My parents moved back to New York from Florida when I was in the ninth grade.

I've chosen not to live in Hollywood, and instead I live in Brooklyn, New York. It's how I like to live. I'd rather hang out with my kids and family when I'm not working. Going to premieres is not my idea of a fun night out.

You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them.